On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Michael W Cocke wrote:
I've heard of that and worse from HP. What possessed you to go buy a
computer without asking around first? If I were ever to actually
purchase a system (I purpose build everything - I can't afford
downtime and no one in their right mind sells 3.5 Tb servers cheap)
I'd buy a Dell. HP and Sony are trash.
I have never had that problem. I have a three year extended warrenty with
HP and they have never given me flack about running Linux. This is on a
laptop, not a server however. They do wipe the drive and install an
unpatched version of Windows on it every time I send it in. I have a bare
drive for that reason.
Mike-
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:58:12 -0700, you wrote:
For the past couple of months I have been having intermittent, serious
problems with my firewall/gateway machine which have disrupted my
network (especially email) which caused me to get suspended from this
list.
The end result was the replacement with an unused system which then
suffered a catastrophic disk failure, and resulted in my purchase of my
first complete system from a major vendor, HP. Before this acquisition
I spent the past 20 years getting parts from Fry's and other Bay Area
stores, and assembling systems on my own. When I tried to register the
hardware I had some problems relating to the failure of Internet access
to an HP computer system. I called the tech support line to do the
thing, but I aborted this call when I was told by a tech support person
AND his supervisor that I would be ineligible for tech support because
about the first thing I did with the system was blow away Vista and
installed Fedora Linux (FC6, not F7 or F8).
I am interested in discovering whether others have heard of this crap
and how people were able to deal with this issue.
dlg
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